The winners and shortlist for The Elbow Room Prize 2015 have been announced in London.

The winners will be showcased at an exhibition from October 16th – 18th at The Gallery on the Corner, in London, and celebrated at an evening of Visual Art, Poetry and Live Music.

‘Elbow Room, launched in 2012 by As Yet Untitled, is an on-going series of art journals and live events celebrating art in all guises. Each volume of Elbow Room is individually curated to create a cohesive collection that includes written and visual arts. Produced in limited edition, hand bound pamphlets Elbow Room is sold online, in specialist bookshops and at artists’ book fairs across the country. Elbow Room is housed in multiple special collections including The Poetry Library at London’s Southbank Centre and The Scotland National Gallery. Our live events bring art off the page as writers and musicians come together for intimate and exciting evenings. Elbow Room Live has enjoyed packed nights in London and Norwich and was one of the featured artists at Turn the Page artists’ book fair 2014.’

The judging panel for the inaugural prize included Rosie Sherwood, Zelda Chappel and Lauren Fried:

Rosie Sherwood is an artist, scholar and founder of independent publishing company As Yet Untitled. Her interdisciplinary practise focuses on storytelling, an exploration of the book and the curation and publication of on going cross-disciplinary journal Elbow Room. Sherwood graduated from Camberwell College of Art with an MA in Book Arts in 2013. She has taught at multiple institutions including the University of East Anglia, University of the Arts London and Bournemouth University. Sherwood recently published an article on the comic book and book arts in The Arts Library Journal and held her first solo exhibition.

Zelda Chappel’s poetry has been widely published in both print and online journals with poems appearing in Obsessed with Pipework, Whisker, Eunoia Review, Lunar Poetry, Popshop, Bare Fiction, Prole, Hark Magazine, The Interpreter’s House and Ink, Sweat & Tears amongst many others. In September 2014, her poem Another Twenty, Another Stone won the Battered Moons Poetry Competition, judged by David Morely. Her poetry was also nominated for this year’s Forward Prize. Chappel is co-curator for Elbow Room. Her debut collection, Girl in the Dog-toothed Coat, will be published by Bare Fiction in July 2015.

Lauren Fried is a historian of the designed body, currently undertaking a PhD based between the Royal College of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She holds an MA in the History of Design, and an MA (Hons) in the History of Art and the History of Architecture. She has worked as a contemporary fine art curator in various locations across London and Scotland, as an exhibitions researcher at the V&A, and as a gallery manager. Her academic research now focuses on gender and sexuality in performance, archives and museology. She curates and writes around these subjects, and currently teaches at the London College of Fashion, as well as writing and curating work on contemporary art, the body and dress.

An anthology of the winning entries is available for pre-order on the website.

Entries for the 2016 Prize will open in the New Year.